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Best movie of this year hands down!

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

More of the same for Jungle Jim fans here as Johnny Weissmuller's jungle hero gets involved in helping Anne Lawrence (Sheila Ryan) in the search for a missing football star. The backdrop is one of dastardly doings by some nefarious character, who is instigating raids on villages led by the Skeleton Men. Cue Jim involved in a good quota of close call dramatics.There's the usual cheap moments; bad rear projection, giant prop boulders that move when someone touches them, but these are the kind of things we tend to afford affection for these days. From drowning perils to big lizard, to fisticuffs and sexual tensions, Jungle Manhunt, without reaching the higher end of the franchise, never falters in its prime objective to entertain without pretension. 6/10

the most interesting thing about the movie is the performances. There mostly pretty bad. Johnny Wessimieser may have had one really goodgreat movie but here hes barely wood-perhaps because he actually has to talk in the movie he acts as if he is afraid of it . Everyone Else to Bob mMller as a football player is also bad-the natives the villain everyone is pretty much terrible. That said Shelia Ryan, is pretty great in the movie-either that or she is just head or heals better then anyone else in the movie that it just looks great. Shes spunky, generally funny and has a good late 40s sense of power and accomplishment even if she just mostly gets dragged around in the film. its not in any means a good movie, yet i can't hate it.

A little romance entered Jungle Jim's life in Jungle Manhunt. Not for Johnny Weissmuller mind you at least in the Tarzan films he had Jane. No the romance came for Sheila Ryan who came with camera in hand as a news reporter looking for a football player who disappeared in a presumed plane crash several years earlier. And Ryan's in need of a guide.The guy that Ryan is seeking is Bob Waterfield the Frank Tarkenton of his day. Waterfield was probably the best quarterback of his day, a very popular guy and also one of the first Christian athletes though he was far from Tim Tebow. At the time this film was made he was starring for the Los Angeles Rams. And Waterfield was also half of a very big celebrity couple of himself and Jane Russell.Anyway rumors of a white man leading a native tribe on various raids to capture men and kill all the others in peaceful tribes bring Weissmuller into the local war. Ryan tags along to see if it could be Waterfield.Instead it's Lyle Talbot playing a foreign scientist with a bit of cheesy accent who is enslaving the men to work in his uranium mine where they're prone to die real soon. Weissmuller finds the mine, finds Talbot and along the way finds Waterfield.Jungle Manhunt was fascinating to watch various acting styles employed. Lyle Talbot did what was required of him and overacted outrageously for the kid trade the target audience was and for posterity because he knew how corny this film was and knew also it would be a camp classic. Ryan was a good actress and did what was required of her to look both feminine and competent in the man's world even though she did need rescuing by Weissmuller from drowning. Weissmuller who in his first Tarzan film just got a grunt or three and some jungle gibberish for dialog, graduated to where he could handle dialog if not great at least competently. Poor Waterfield as an actor, he was great quarterback.I have to say this particular Jungle Jim feature was enjoyable even if I did laugh in the wrong spots.

***SPOILERS*** Unintentionally funny, aren't they all, Jungle Jim, Johnny Weissmuller, movie where he together with news photographer Anne Lawrence, Sheila Ryan, are searching the jungles of darkest Africa to find lost, for some nine years, professional football player and the estranged husband of actress Jane Russell Bob Miller played by real football hero Bob Waterfield. It's during this time that a series of deadly raids are conducted against a number of native villages lead by a mysterious white man using men dressed up in Halloween skeleton costumes as his shock troops.We and Jungle Jim later find out that the white man doing all this damage is industrial chemist Mitchell Heller, Lyle Talbot, who uses the natives his men kidnapped as slave labors in his hidden cave in the jungle to create from igneous rocks synthetic diamonds! Diamonds that are so genuine that their easily mistaken for the real thing! The one drawback to this operation on Heller's part is that those working in his "Diamond Mine" don't last too long dying within a few days of deadly radiation poisoning. Always needing new manpower to get the job done Heller has his men raid the local villages to get him new recruits or workers.It's after being taken hostage by Heller's men it's non other then Jungle Jim's faithful jungle companion Tamba the Chimp who rescues Jungle Jim and makes it possible for him together with Bob Miller throwing, quarterback style, bomb laden coconuts and mango's to put an end to Heller's grandiose plans in his efforts to corner the worlds diamond markets! With Heller now on his own with his Skelton Men running for cover he makes a run for it himself, with a safe box filled with synthetic diamonds, towards the hill country surrounding the village. Only to end up falling some 200 feet, without a parachute, from a cliff he was hanging on by a branch, that broke, to his death.As usual Jungle Jim got the best deal in the movie in not only being the person,together Bob Miller, who saved the day and the native villagers from the evil Mitchell Heller and his feared Skeleton Men but also ended up with the real hero in the movie the cute and cuddly Tamba the Chimp. As for football hero Bob Miller he had to settle for second best in ending up getting the girl, not his real life wife Jean Russell, the sexy newsreel photographer Anne Lawrence.